Wrist Watches
Hi.

I'm Panteneman, and my addiction is wrist watches.

It all started off for me when I just had the one watch, and being the scatter head that I am I would waste time running around the house trying to look for my watch when I was in college in the mid 1990's. In my infinite wisdom, I thought:

"Aha! I shall buy another, this way if I can't find my main one, I have a back up watch".

And then it snow balled out of control. I love the different styles of them, and mechanisms that they use (fully mechanical, automatic wind, LCD display, LED display). I like the fact that I can chuck a different one on each day like putting on a different shirt or something.

The addiction seems to knows no bounds. Just when I *think* I am happy with a watch, I will soon track down another that catches my eye. I've bought them for myself even outside the realms of my birthday or Christmas.

I really like my gadgets (PC's, mobile phones, amateur radio, Hi-Fi etc), and the watch collecting thing is probably an offshoot from it. I recall feeling that I was the dogs bollocks when I was a kid all because I had a Trafalgar calculator watch (and I was equally gutted when it got sea water in it, as it wasn't water proof). Probably to do with my Dad being a manager of Comet once upon a time, and being the manager of a Hi-Fi shop when I was small and wee.

I even went as far as taking months to track down a certain model of Fossil watch, and ended up buying the model I was after from America on eBay because I couldn't get it anywhere.

Here's a piccy of SOME of what I own:

Top left: Accurist Chronograph with World Time (Breitling a like in black "Ion Plated" bracelet), Pulsar Spoon (circa 2000 vintage), Fossil "Blue" BQ-9279 (watch has hidden "LED" time readout underneath the hands upon button press, lovely bit of kit), Fossil JR 9465 "OLED" (colour LED animated display), Identity LED watch, Seiko Automatic divers watch (the "James Bond" watch as my mates call it), and another (but more conservative looking)Seiko Automatic.

Bottom left: Citizen Automatic (Japanese import, displays date & time in Japanese and English), Casio 928-PGW30 "Pentagraph" sports watch (circa 1992), Casio Waveceptor (atomic clock accurate, self setting), Fossil JR9464 "OLED" watch, Paketa manual wind watch (Russian with 1-24 hour dial instead of 1-12, millitary style), Damas "Jump Hour" automatic (circa 1970's original), Fossil JR 8712 "Big Tic" (displays seconds behind hands in Old English style text), A "Cowboy Style" watch (used to wear quite a lot with biker jacket, jeans etc), and lastly a Sekonda where I replaced the strap with a funky green one.



(apologies for quick and shit picture, but you get the jist of what I have).
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 21:30, 18 replies)

hello
that is a very nice collection of watches, but could you please spend a little bit of money on carpets as well please? its fucking hideous!
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 22:57, closed)

Ahaha!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 23:31, closed)

you got there before me...
looks like a "look what we nicked party" at an funeral parlour

grisly!
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 0:02, closed)

Agreed
saw that collection of awful,awful timepieces and thoought can't allow this to pass. the irony of it is there are some really nice pieces out there but look a bit further than the pound shop in future.
(Discreditor wants the dream to come true, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 0:07, closed)

Pound shop?
Errr....No.

Don't think so. Next.
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 0:25, closed)

Watches! Yay!
Hoya!

Hey, no problem mate! I dig watches, too!

My favourite brand actually is Swatch. I'm always amazed by the zillion models they cough up every season!

Even if I hadn't bought a new one in ages, I plan on doing so as soon as I got money.

However, there is a non Swatch watch I'd love to get. It's a Piaget model, circa 70s, which had a large leather strap under the regular one, not unlike the brown watch at the bottom of your pic.the Fossil 8712.

Eric Clapton and Miles Davis used to have one :)

Be funky

M A D
(MAD Life -The Best Antidote To Happiness, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 22:58, closed)

Yay!
I've not got a Swatch in my collection yet. The above pic is only some of what I own. I have something like 20 watches or thereabouts.

Fetch nice prices too. I personally like Fossil for the same reason that you like Swatch, so many different models that come out every so often, many as limited prints. Get a nice collectible tin box for them to live in too.

Good to see I am not alone with the watch fetish. ;-)
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 0:28, closed)

Hi, my name's Sammi and I'm too lazy
To get the battery replaced in my only wristwatch.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 23:56, closed)

Simple
Get an automatic one. Doesn't need batteries.
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 0:31, closed)

for unique watches
you might wanna check out tokyoflash.com

the watches don't have normal faces, they each have a unique way to tell the time. They make you feel like you're from the future.
(StupidAmericanTourist, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 5:04, closed)

Cool
I shall have to check that out. Cheers! ;-)
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 8:50, closed)

You sound like my bestest friend.
The man has more watches than I imagined possible to own. I remember when his addiction to watches started more than 15 years ago.

But that is nothing compared to his collection of towels.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 5:32, closed)

I like
the brown one, 3rd from left on the bottom row. Very nice!
(YayLady is cold, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:01, closed)

The Jist of what you have dear sir...
...is an eye-pokingly dreadful carpet!
( seeballs Doo da da doo da da doo da da doo, da da doo da do, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 13:17, closed)

Let it go!
The post wasn't about the fucking carpet, it was about the watches.

If appears that some of the posters on here can't appear to come to terms with the carpet.

Damn, wished I'd have took the picture in the fucking kitchen or something. The carpet isn't THAT bad, honest!

Gaaaah!
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 15:21, closed)

I want one of these...
www.iwantoneofthose.com/swap-watch/index.html

and I shall have one after xmas. Whatever it takes
(MadBouncyDog Barking at the moon since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 15:47, closed)

Oh noes....
Want one of these now. Thought it was the Sony Ericsson watch that connects with Bluetooth to a mobile for a second. Looks similar.

*contemplates selling body organs*
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 15:52, closed)

Am I the only one
who read 'Wrist watchers'?

I thought it was some sort of 'fat fighters' type jobbie for people with fat wrists.
(Bam Bam McPenis will change all this when he is fuhrer., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 20:58, closed)